On 07/14/2010 10:03 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > --- On Wed, 7/14/10, JD<jd1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: JD<jd1...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Problem playing an avi file >> To: "Community support for Fedora users"<users@lists.fedoraproject.org> >> Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 7:45 PM >> I have an avi file which when >> played with any of the linux players: >> xine, vlc, mplayer, ffplay, totem, ...etc >> displays the message in the video window: >> Codec Error: Use Windows Media player. >> then it issues the message: Redirecting to microsoft >> download page. >> >> I have never seen this happen before. >> >> Has anyone else seen it? How to get around it? >> >> -- > Question: > > Do you have codecs installed? Which codecs? The mplayer codecs: > > http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f13.html > > Cut+paste from above page: in case its needed > > Binary Codecs - The MPlayer projects maintains a package full of binary > codecs for which no directly open source option exists, some of these files > include Windows DLL's. These are shared by both Xine and MPlayer. NOTE: > There is significant variation depending on your architecture (i386, x86_64, > ppc). This step is really only beneficial to 32bit i386 users, 64bit users > may also install the i386. > > * Navigate to: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ > * Select the package (.tar.bz2) best matching your version of > Fedora/Architecture. Generally 32-bit users will use: all-20100303.tar.bz2. > * Install the codecs (32-bit for example): > > [miran...@charon Download]$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/codecs > [miran...@charon Download]$ sudo tar -jxvf all-20100303.tar.bz2 > --strip-components 1 -C /usr/lib/codecs/ > > > In case you did not have them, if you do have them, and you still get the > error message, maybe share the avi file with mplayer developers on mplayer > lists?, or try another method, like a livecd with built in mplayer and see if > that will play it? > > Regards, > > Antonio > > > > > Hi, Yes I do have all these codecs in /usr/local
But it turns out this was a trojan virus. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
